Re: Why is Sterling/Herndon so lower-middle class?
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2048547mp
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Date: September 25, 2015 07:37PM
There is a neighborhood that was just built as part of Loudoun One. If you peruse the land records for that community, you will notice that not only is it classified as "high density", but you can take any of the streets with occupied homes (sold in the 600,000+ range) and you will notice that, in the county land-owner records for one of those neighborhood streets, you find maybe 10 or fewer out of the owners on that whole street that actually have have a pronounceable American name--most of the the rest of the 90 percent of those residents seem to be from Asian and Indian/Pakistani and Middle Eastern countries. Seems as if they might now be the people who are rich enough to come into America and can buy up all the expensive real estate around here.
Makes me wonder how the developers of that land got away with charging such high prices in a neighborhood full of high cost/high density houses that sits directly beneath the main landing path for the jumbo jets landing at Dulles a few miles away? The jumbo-jet-on-the-roof style high decibel noise level there continues 24 hours a day, especially when all of the jumbos have to use that runway minutes apart throughout the day and night when the wind is from the south.